A memorial fund set up by Jo's husband and friends has raised nearly £1.5m for organisations she supported.

Our thoughts go out to Jo's family and friends on this tough day.

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On 21 June 2016, we wrote...

The memorial fund, set up in memory of Jo Cox, has reached 1 million pounds in just three days.

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Over 30,000 people have donated and the money is set to be given to three charities close to Jo's heart. The Royal Voluntary Service, to support volunteers helping combat loneliness in Jo's constituency, Batley and Spen. HOPE not hate, who seek to challenge and defeat the politics of hate and extremism within local communities across Britain and The White Helmets which helps search and rescue workers in Syria.

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Jo's widow, Brendan Cox, has thanks the public for their "incredible generosity". His tweet followed yesterday's tribute to Jo in which The Commons came together to remember their colleague.

Thank you to everyone for your incredible generosity. This will change lives in Syria, Batley and across the UK https://t.co/S4n2qL6Nmn

Brendan and the couple's two children, 3-year-old Lejla and five-year-old Cuillin, sat in the House of Commons to hear Parliament pay their respects.

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David Cameron remembered Cox as "a voice of compassion whose irrepressible spirit and boundless energy lit up the lives of all who knew her" while Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn said Britain had lost "one of our very best".

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Labour's Rachel Reeves, whose constituency was only a few miles from Jo's, broke down as she said: "Batley and Spen will go on to elect another MP but no one will replace a mother." The pair had been friends for 10 years.

Calls have been made that Bernard Kenny, 77, should be officially commended for his bravery. The pensioner was stabbed in the stomach whilst trying to save Jo. He was officially released from hospital yesterday.

On 20th June 2016, we wrote...

Today, the Commons will pay tribute to Jo Cox, the Labour MP who was brutally murdered last week whilst out on duty.

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All parties will join together in memory of Jo as they return to parliament today. Men will wear white roses of Yorkshire in Jo's honour and women will wear colourful scarves.

Jeremy Corbyn announced on Friday that Parliament would reconvene so that MPs would have a chance to pay their respects. It's expected 90 minutes of tributes will begin at 2.30pm before Parliament move to a memorial service in the church of St Margaret, on the grounds of Westminster Abbey.

It was discussed that all parties would be sat merged but several people said they liked the idea of unity but they wanted to sit next to their colleagues in a time of great sadness. Labour's Jess Phillips yesterday tweeted: "I understand the gesture of politicians all sitting together I don't oppose it, but I know I will want to sit with my friends for support."

On Thursday lunchtime, Jo Cox was fatally shot and stabbed in her constituency near Leeds. Thomas Mair, 52, is currently in custody waiting to be charged with her murder. She left behind her husband, Brendan Cox, and two children aged three and five. Tributes from all over the world have flooded in to honour the "21st century good Samaratian".

On 16th June 2016, we wrote...

Labour MP Jo Cox has been fatally shot and stabbed during an attack in her constituency near Leeds.

The 41-year-old mother of two was leaving her regular surgery at Birstell Library this afternoon when she was reportedly shot three times, before being stabbed. She was left bleeding on the ground.

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A man called Thomas Mair, 52, has been arrested near Market Street in Birstall. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has expressed his condolences, describing the MP as a "much loved colleague".

"Jo died doing her public duty at the heart of our democracy, listening to and representing the people she was elected to serve," he said. "In the coming days, there will be questions to answer about how and why she died.

"But for now all our thoughts are with Jo's husband Brendan and their two young children. They will grow up without their mum, but can be immensely proud of what she did, what she achieved and what she stood for."

Yorkshire-born Cox studied at Heckmondwike Grammar School before becoming the first person in her family to go to university - reading social and political studies at Cambridge University. She spent her summers working in a toothpaste and hairspray factory where he dad worked.

After she left university, she got a job as an adviser for the Labour MP Joan Walley and then Glenys (now Baroness) Kinnock. By the end of the 90s, she served as head of campaigns for the pro-European pressure group Britain in Europe.

Cox was committed to social injustice and women in politics. She travelled all over the globe working on issues relating to poverty and discrimination. Her charity work was numerous. Cox worked for Oxfam as head of policy, and later as a strategy consultant for Save The Children and the NSPCC. She was national chair of Labour Women's Network and a senior adviser to the Freedom Fund, an anti-slavery charity.

In 2015, she was elected as MP for Batley and Spen in the 2015 General Election and was regarded one of Labour's rising political stars. Recently, she had campaigned hard for the remain campaign in next week's EU referendum.

Her husband, Brendan Cox, has published the following heartbreaking statement:

"Today is the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. More difficult, more painful, less joyful, less full of love. I and Jo's friends and family are going to work every moment of our lives to love and nurture our kids and to fight against the hate that killed Jo."

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"Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people."

"She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her. Hate doesn't have a creed, race or religion, it is poisonous."

"Jo would have no regrets about her life, she lived every day of it to the full."